Book Review: Human Information Retrieval

Book Review: Cross-Language Information Retrieval by Jian-Yun Nie

Cross-Language Information Retrieval is a compact book introducing a branch of information retrieval that has gained considerable research interest since the dawn of the WorldWideWeb in the mid 1990s. Information retrieval is generally concerned with the problem of finding documents within a large collection that are relevant to a given input query. Whereas the original formulation of IR assume...

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Book Reviews: Advances in Information Retrieval: Recent Research from the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval

The recent advances in information retrieval (IR) in this collection of ten original papers reflect the wide range of research topics developed at the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. W. Bruce Croft, the Director of CIIR and the editor of this volume, presents in the preface both the history and the impressive research track of the...

Personal Filing Systems: Creating Information Retrieval Systems on Microcomputers (Book Review)

Book review Logic and Visual Information

Researchers in the elds of philosophy, logic, computer science, and formal semantics are beginning to ask interesting questions concerning graphical representation. In addition to being a primary mode of human communication, such representations have been used even in the teaching of logic eg. Venn diagrams, or the Hyperproof" system. If the observation that the visual presentation of informati...